The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards earlier this week. How did you do on your prognostication?
Last year, joined by a few others, I posted an Oscar trivia question each day between the nominations and the awards. We had so much fun we've decided to do it again. So look for our daily trivia question, starting tomorrow. I'll be joined this year by several of last year's contributors, including the Lounge's very own Jacqui Lipton, Kelly Anders, Lance McMillian, Colin Miller, and Garrett Levin.
And my take on the biggest snub? The failure of Despicable Me in not receiving a nomination for Best Animated Film (an opinion shared by at least one other person). I was shocked. SHOCKED!
My biggest snub is not nominating Christopher Nolan for Best Director for Inception. That makes it 3 times that The Directors Guild of America has nominated him (Memento, The Dark Knightm and Inception), but the Academy has not. I wonder if that is a record?
Posted by: Colin Miller | January 27, 2011 at 04:09 PM
And what's up with not nominating Tangled in the Best Animated Feature category? I generally don't like animated films, but this was a very good take on the Rapunzel story.
Posted by: Jacqueline Lipton | January 27, 2011 at 04:23 PM
My wife and daughters just loved TANGLED. I found DESPICABLE ME much more entertaining. As for TOY STORY 3? Didn't care for it (too dark for me). But it does appear to be an answer to this trivia question: Name the only sequel film to be nominated for Best Picture, but the earlier films were not nominated for Best Picture (rather awkwardly phrased, I confess).
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | January 27, 2011 at 10:41 PM